This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland YearGerman jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888 1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and the right, such as Jurgen Habermas and Leo Strauss, his Nazi era past, especially his active efforts to remove Jewish influence from German law, has cast a